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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Christopher Hitchens

The violence in the Bible is appalling.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

One Liner Religion Violence
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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Evidence Faith Give Up Ourselves Poison Reason Religion Respect
Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Appreciation Favorite Irony Virtue
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Country Day Escape Present
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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End Limitation Praise
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Coward Creation Religion Word
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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Death People Prayer See Yourself
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Enough Life Live Time
Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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Devil God People Permission Side View
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Definition Management Oneself Race
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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History Oneself Religion Small
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Disagreement Risk Sacrifice Title
Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Islam Murder Radical Reaction World
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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Happiness Risk Thinking Truth Way Yourself
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Enough Myself Selfish Thinking Touch
She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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Charm Director Imagination Kind
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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Mindset People Rejection Thinking Time
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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Ability Authority Essential Oneself Religion
I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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Atheist Harmful Hold Maintain Myself Positive Religion Truth
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Existence High Principle
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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Death Devil Enemy Myself Sympathy Time
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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Discover Escape God Greatness Oneself
It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Faith Knowledge Wisdom
The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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Correct Essence Quite Rule True

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